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Tag Archives: Czech literature
Somebody Had To Decide That The Book Was Unfit To Read (Bohumil Hrabal, ‘Too Loud a Solitude’)
One of my tutors at Kent said that Too Loud a Solitude was her favourite novel. It’s nice to hear that academics can have a favourite novel, one book that sticks out above all others as the one they most … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, satire
Tagged Bohumil Hrabal, censorship, Communism, Czech literature, Czechoslovakia, state oppression, World War II
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